Baji: Fighting Fire with Fire
It’s the second year of the Women’s Month arts initiative – Baji: All-Boholana Visual + Literary Arts Exhibit – and the women artists get fiery and personal.
While, Shakespeare’s King John (1595) stanza: Be stirring as the time/ be fire with fire/ Threaten the threatener and outface the brow/ Of bragging horror/ (where the phrase “fight fire with fire” may have originated) drips more of machismo , women, in the Baji Exhibit, fight fire with fire using both their feminine grace and strength, and celebrates getting through – in Baji: Through the Fire.
The exhibit opened last Sunday, March 4, and runs through the 30th of March at the Foodwalk Extension of the Island City Mall.
Bikes for Education: Pedal Power!
When getting to school takes a kid that many steps one takes to climb up and down the steep stairway at the Chocolate Hills view deck in Carmen, multiplied tenfold or more, minus the concrete steps and the great scenery, you get the sense of his dedication to get the needed education to get through life with more ease than his daily walkathon.
Jake is a sophomore student at the Baclayon High School and has been doing this daily, pretty much his whole schooling life.
12 Exciting Things in and about Bohol this 2012
2011 was a pretty eventful year for Bohol’s culture and the arts. We know, LifestyleBohol was in the middle of most of it. 2012 is bound to be even more engaging. LifestyleBohol lists down, in random, 12 exciting things to expect for the Bohol lifestyle scene this 2012.
1. TBTK 2012. Bol-anons from all over the world will again gather in one huge homecoming panagtigum, tapok-tapok here on May 2012. Moved from July to the fiesta month of May, it promises to be bigger as ever with more participating Bol-anon individuals and associations from more countries.
Photos: Kalag-kalag
There’s no Halloween in Bohol. Kalag-kalag, that’s what we have. These are only a few scenes from the Dampas Catholic Cemetery in Dampas, Tagbilaran City.
Mabaw Reef is Tagbilaran’s last remaining underwater jewel
There is alot to be learned from local histories, something everyone must always consider and research, research, research.
Say, for instance, the case of the etymology of the Mabaw Reef. We talk about Mabaw Reef, the Tubattaha-like marine protected area (MPA) just off the shores of Taloto/ Ubujan, this city, because, the Rare Conservation, Inc. – backed Mabaw Reef Pride Campaign that aims to deepen awareness and local pride on the MPA, and particularly, increase active participation of the local folks in the conservation of the Mabaw Reef, was launched earlier today.
TaRSIER 117: Saving Lives
On a normal late afternoon in the city and around Bohol. School kids with their coterie, leisurely walk towards home, school bags and lunch boxes dangling. Tricycles whir by noisily, moving slower than they sound. The city birds sitting lazily on the power lines remain, unflustered.
Meanwhile, at a small room tucked behind the Governor’s Mansion, telephones buzz off every so often, the phone operators, prompt and sharp, quickly answering: “TaRSIER 117. What’s your emergency?”
Photos: The kids are alright at Kainggit Beach!
Kainggit Beach will always have a special place in the hearts of Tagbilaranons.
Never mind the floating debris. (Yes, that organic sort.) The slippery floors and the countless accidents, slip-ups, if you may. The steep climb down and up. The gritty, post-apocalyptic finish. The
It must be the kuja.
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